Chapter 173: Black Hand
In the courtyard of Xiangyang Palace, where there was no one else, Xia Shuang was cold and quiet, but the persuasion that was extremely cruel to Su Yixing continued. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Su Zhechen, I remember very clearly that when I was forced to agree to your three-year appointment last spring, I had the mentality that you were willing to waste your precious three years on something that could not have any results at all, that is, your freedom and rights, and I had no intention of interfering, but now, my mind has changed."
"After living in the Xiangyang Mansion for more than half a year, Uncle Su and Aunt Su are no longer the two strangers who can make me completely ignore their feelings, and you are no longer the despicable villain I had resentment at the beginning. Now, I sincerely regard Uncle Su and Aunt Su as elders worthy of respect and love, and treat you as a friend who sincerely wishes happiness. ”
"So now, I don't want to continue the original lie, let Uncle Su and Aunt Su have meaningless expectations of me, and let you invest in me in vain feelings that are impossible to reap. After all, if I really pretend to continue like this, when I leave the Xiangyang Mansion in two years, I will most likely not be able to find peace in my heart. ”
"Say a thousand things and ten thousand, although you can come up with such a high-sounding reason and tell me that the reason why you want to leave me is for my parents and me, but in fact, this can't change the fact that after you leave me, you will immediately run to Lu Shaoyun."
Clenched Xia Shuanghan's thin shoulders under the palm of his hand, pursed his lips forbearingly, and turned around to take a step towards Su Yixing, who was negative and angry, after leaving the sentence "A three-year appointment is a three-year contract, and one less day will not work", he threw off his sleeves and walked out of the inner room.
"Su Zhenchen, I know that what I just said hurt your heart, and you need a quiet place to calm down now, but I want to say one more thing-" turned around and walked quickly to the door, staring at Su Yixing's back soaked in sadness and loss, Xia Shuanghan, who had two contradictory emotions on his face, said with concern: "Drinking alcohol in moderation, greedy drinks will hurt your body, I don't want you to hurt your body when you are hurt in your heart." ”
"......" Su Yixing, who paused slightly when he heard this, and the corners of his mouth were dyed with a helpless bitter smile, and he didn't look back: "What I want to get from you is not friendship, so if you say this to me as a friend rather than as a wife, then I would rather you be cruel to the end and not say anything." ”
“...... But what to do Su Zhechen, I am so greedy, on the one hand, I don't want to be your wife, and on the other hand, I want to get you as a friend, so I am destined to only express my concern for you in a way that you don't like. ”
Watching Su Yixing stride out of Tingtao Courtyard and sigh deeply, Xia Shuanghan didn't know that the reconciliation between her and Su Yixing that she mentioned today would come so quickly.
"Do you mean that this time Lu Shaoyun was infected with typhoid fever and was locked down in Guanzhuang Village, and you and your family took a tolerant, considerate and understanding attitude towards Xia Shuanghan, which made Xia Shuanghan feel guilty and indebted, so she proposed to break the three-year covenant she made at the beginning and leave you in advance, so that your whole family can have a new start as soon as possible?"
In a restaurant in the west of Beijing, facing a friend who was trapped in love, Wen Jiling, who was forcibly pulled to accompany the wine, couldn't help but sigh for Su Yixing's situation, and sighed leisurely for his own situation: "This is really a scripture that is difficult to read!" My family Xue Ying also changed her original intention because of the experience of staying in Guanzhuang Village for more than a month, and decided not to pursue Lu Shaoyun anymore. ”
"Then according to what you say, won't your sister soon set off with you on the road and return to southern Xinjiang?"
Su Yixing had already heard about Wen Xueying's bad intentions and almost killed Lu Shaoyun because of her good intentions, so he thought that Wen Xueying's abandonment of pestering Lu Shaoyun because of the guilt in his heart was not something that he couldn't understand, and he was not surprised or surprised that he was likely to cut off his feelings and return to southern Xinjiang.
"If she's willing to go home with me, that's fine! But in fact, she doesn't plan to go with me at all! ”
With a bitter face, Wen Jiling, who gently put the wine glass on the table with a "click", said: "Xue Ying said that she almost killed someone else, and the victim did not pursue it, that was the magnanimity of others, but she herself couldn't just turn around and leave without face and skin, without heart and lungs." She insisted that she would not leave the capital until she atoned for the sins she had committed. ”
"If she doesn't leave, what about you? Are you going to stay with her? Although he had been holding a small wine glass in his hand, Su Yixing, who was always circling in his mind with Xia Shuanghan's words to let him drink an appropriate amount, actually didn't drink much. Raising his eyes to look at his friend across the wine table, he continued in a depressed heart: "Or are you planning to use force to forcibly tie her back?" ”
"That dead girl is stubborn, she won't go back if she doesn't go back, it's useless for me to get nine cows to pull! Besides......"
There was a slight pause between speaking, recalling his sister's face stained with tears because of guilt, and thought from the bottom of his heart that Wen Xueying's dare to take responsibility was the right choice Wen Jiling said: "I also agree with Xueying's attitude of making up for all the debts and starting again." Therefore, I will always stay with her in the capital for the next period of time. ”
"Obviously, I said that I would go back after the New Year, but now I suddenly decided to extend my stay for a few more months, you and your sister are so willful, do your father and mother know?"
Facing Su Yixing's ridicule with a mocking look on his face, Wen Jiling said seriously: "The letter has been sent, and they will receive it in a few days." I believe that as people as people, as long as they understand what the reason for me and Xueying to stay, they will naturally agree with the decision we made. ”
"I remember that after all the other envoys leave Beijing, you won't be able to continue to live in the Octagon Pavilion, right?" Picking up the wine jug and pouring himself a glass of wine, Su Yixing, who raised the wine glass, took a small sip of the clear wine, and said, "Where do you plan to live next?" If you want, why don't you come to live in Xiangyang Palace? It just so happens that I am in need of someone who can accompany me for a drink, a chat, and a boredom. ”
"This ...... Anyway, thank you for your kindness, but I still have to go back and sum up with Xue Ying before making a decision. Wen Jiling, who looked embarrassed, further explained: "After all, you know, because of the incident in Guanzhuang Village, the relationship between my sister and your family's concubine is quite embarrassing now." ”
In the fresh and elegant private room, Su Yixing and Wen Jiling's drinking conversation continued, but at this time, they didn't know that in another private room separated by a wall, there was a person with ulterior motives who listened to all their conversations. "Wen Xueying? It seems that this is another woman like Zhou Yaoguang who can be used. ”
Since the incident that happened in Su Yixing's study, he woke up with a hangover the next day, and stabbed it in front of Xie in front of all the maids, Zhou Yaoguang's life has not been very easy throughout the first half of the lunar month and the first half of the first month.
The seriously ill grandmother blamed and scolded her, and the people of the Xiangyang palace despised and disdained her.
In the face of her ulterior motives, although Su Chunfeng and Xie Shi had never said anything on the surface, through Xie Shi's several side knocks, Zhou Yaoguang quickly understood the fact that he was no longer treated by anyone in Xiangyang Palace. As for her marriage, which has been pending and undecided, it is destined to be greatly discounted because of the impact of this incident.
"Originally, I didn't look down on the marriage, but due to the impact of this incident, it may not be my turn in the future. But in the face of such a situation, I am not reconciled! They are all people, but why is there such a big gap between people and people? ”
On the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first lunar month, sitting on the carriage to the Xishi Lantern Festival, holding back for more than a month, he finally got the first opportunity to walk out of the courtyard filled with the smell of decoction, and then took a good break.
"Yes, I took advantage of Su Shizi's drunkenness and unconscious to sneak into the study to get close to him, it is indeed my fault, but Xia Shuanghan, as a married woman, stayed out for other men and did not go home for a long time, is it right to do so? Why is it that the same behavior violates "Women's Ring" and "Women's Virtue", and the result I get is that Xia Shuanghan, who is spurned and abused by everyone, and does not abide by women's morals, can get the understanding and support of the three members of the Xiangyang Wang's family? ”
Faced with the three members of the Su family showing Xia Shuanghan this kind of leniency and understanding that was too much in her opinion, the more Zhou Yaoguang thought about it, the more she couldn't suppress the resentment and grievances and jealousy that came up in her heart.
"My wife lives in a completely closed village with other men and doesn't come home for more than half a month, so Su Yixing can accept this behavior of cuckolding on his head, I just touched his cheek lightly, and then he was taken to the bed, and he didn't do anything else, why can't he forget about this matter, instead of embarrassing me in front of the princess?"
Faced with the two attitudes that Su Yixing adopted when treating her and Xia Shuanghan, which can be called vastly different, Zhou Yaoguang, who came to the conclusion that "Su Yixing is narrow-minded", can be said to have wiped out the few good feelings that were bred on Su Yixing himself after excluding external factors such as power and status.
It's just that even though Zhou Yaoguang has different reasons and degrees of resentment against the three members of the Xiangyang Wang family and Xia Shuanghan, she knows very well in her heart that her marriage can only rely on the Xie family in the end, but she doesn't have the ability or courage to vent the dissatisfaction hidden in her heart to the four of them.
Zhou Yaoguang is essentially a person who "self-interest is the most important, and everything else can be thrown away", otherwise, she would not have put away her careful thoughts because she couldn't bear Xia Shuanghan's warnings because she couldn't bear Xia Shuanghan's warnings after Xia Shuanghan saw through the lame stalking she carried out in Guanyin Temple, as well as her embarrassment with Pei Huanting.
I want Zhou Yaoguang to be a cowardly coward, who hurriedly retracts his head once he finds that he may suffer losses or encounter danger, and stand on the opposite side of the Su family, unless he provides her with prerequisites such as "Xia Shuanghan is a barbarian, and her brain should not be very flexible, so it should be fine for me to follow up", or "With Pei Huanting as an ally, she will do all the dirty work, I just need to help her properly, and then sit back and enjoy her achievements", so that it is possible.
And the lantern festival on the night of the Lantern Festival is just such an occasion that opens the way to these prerequisites for her.
The man who happened to meet at the crowd of people and shoulder to shoulder at the lantern festival left a very deep and even indelible impression on Zhou Yaoguang: handsome appearance, noble temperament, official eunuch children, and not yet married a wife, these external conditions that are very outstanding for Zhou Yaoguang do not meet her longing and yearning for her future husband.
So, with such a young man with such words and deeds, there is no place that does not reveal a sultry and ambiguous young man, who often communicates with her, and thinks that as long as he is locked up, then even Zhou Yaoguang, who has been relied on all his life, will turn his back on the Xiangyang Wangfu family who treats her well, and turn around and choose to act according to the man's orders, it is not surprising.
"I just need to record and pass on as much as I can about Xia Shuanghan's daily actions and what she might want to do in the next few days, and pass it on?"
In early February, after Xia Shuanghan returned home from Guanzhuang Village, she had an unhappy day with Su Yixing again, and Zhou Yaoguang, who was trapped in the guest house where she and her grandmother were temporarily staying, received a note from her Tanlang for her again, just like the previous times.
And Zhou Yaoguang, who read the content of the note and said to himself, "This is really not difficult", quickly walked out of the courtyard quietly in order to meet the requirements put forward by "Tan Lang", and quietly went to inquire about information. (To be continued.) )